Sunday's primary runoff to select a conservative candidate for the French presidential election pits a champion of free-market economics and traditional family values against a moderate who accuses his rival of pandering to the far right.
Video testimony by Ukraine's ousted president has been postponed in the trial of five former special forces policemen charged with fatally shooting scores of demonstrators.
Scientists say the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record.
Iceland's president says attempts to form a government have collapsed, with the leader of the country's largest left-of-center party admitting defeat in coalition talks.
Turkey's state-run news agency says one Turkish soldier has been killed and five lightly wounded in clashes in Syria, a day after three Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack Ankara claims was by Syrian government forces.
A French prosecutor says a suspect with no apparent link to Islamic terrorism has been identified following the stabbing death of an elderly woman in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France.
Former English soccer players who were subjected to years of sexual abuse by youth team coaches entrusted with their care are breaking cover to expose the game's dark secrets.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says that five men arrested recently in two French cities were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week, and that they were receiving their orders from an Islamic State group member based in Iraq or Syria.
Thousands of Bangladeshis have protested the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, taking to the streets of the capital in front of a national mosque.
Security officials in southern Thailand say two men suspected of involvement with violent unrest were killed in a shootout with police and soldiers who had been tracking them.
The pilots of some 20 vintage airplanes have been released after two days' detention by Ethiopian authorities and are able to continue their flights down the African continent.
Greece's prime minister has expressed shock at the deaths of a woman and child in a fire that raged through an island refugee camp used for migrants facing deportation back to Turkey.
An Egyptian security official says the death toll from the previous night's militant attack in Sinai, which included a suicide car bombing, has reached 11.
The leader of Malta, whose country is about to assume presidency of the European Union, says Britain's exit from the bloc will see both sides lose out.
